A bleeding controversy: duties and decisions in the face of conflicting advice.

Journal article

The authors use a composite case based on their experiences to illustrate the ethics of inter-professional conflict. An HDU team receive two telephone calls. One is from the patient's cardiologist, who states that a patient must be anti-coagulated without delay. The other is from the surgeon responsible for the patient's current admission, who states that the patient must under no circumstances be anti-coagulated. We argue that in the absence of a broad understanding of the patient's conditio...

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Authors: Bahal, N; Papanikitas, A; Sokol, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: International journal of surgery (London, England)
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 32-34
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2009.10.002
• EISSN: 1743-9159
• ISSN: 1743-9191
• Language: English
• Keywords: Risk Assessment; Humans; Decision Making; Interprofessional Relations; Stroke; Medical Staff, Hospital; Hemorrhage; Cardiology; General Surgery; Withholding Treatment; Clinical Competence; Anticoagulants; Hernia, Inguinal; Postoperative Complications; Ethics, Medical